Katrina and the waves

I hope all you guys in Louisiana and wherever else that hurricane is going are safe.
Don't risk anything, your lifes are much more important than your belongings.

And something to cheer everybody up, snatched from mizzadamz:

Women.......
Women are like apples on trees. The best ones are at the top of the tree.
Most men don't want to reach for the good ones because they
are afraid of falling and getting hurt. Instead, they just take the rotten
apples from the ground that aren't as good, but easy.......

The apples at the top think something is wrong with them, when in reality,
they're amazing. They just have to wait for the right man to come along,
the one who's brave enough to climb all the way to the top of the tree.
Share this with other women who are good apples, even those who have
already been picked!

question

one of the things that is great about the internet is that it connects people from widely disparate cultures and allows us to share our favorite stupid movies
holyrood said that in a discussion that was somewhat about cultural references, starting with a movie she quoted, which I took as relating to a pop song I knew.

Anyway, as the internet gives us the chance, I'd like to ask for titles of movies you think to be
a) the best of the movie production in your country (or a country of your choice you know a lot about)
b) the worst of the movie roduction in that country (these can be movies you hate, or movies you like even though you know they're crap)
c) the essentials, the movies everybody in that country should have seen and likely has seen.

If you want to, you can do that for books and music, too.

I want the young American...

It's so much fun to work here.
Except for the work, but anyway.

At lunch today, there were a bunch of American soldiers. We had seen them yesterday, and there was one group especially that seemed to consist of the clowns of the unit. One of the guys had tried to talk a German kid into giving him something of his Coke. The German, apparently, had no idea what he wanted and had looked at him totally thunderstruck. Katrin and I really had a good laugh at that.

Today when they came in, that same guy came over to us and pretended to want to sit down. But at the last moment, he laughed and went to sit with his comrades at the next table.

But he kept grinning over to us and I grinned back.

And as we left, I winked.

That was very bad. I am a good Catholic priest's daughter, we don't do this sort of thing. Tsk tsk. We don't flirt with people. Even though it's a hell of a lot of fun. Much more fun than with most Germans.

( work stuff )

I watched CSI:NY yesterday for the first time.
Hm.
I'm not sure whether I like it. It's rougher, not as cool as CSI:Miami or the original. It also seemed more blatant about their messages, the kind of show where the main character tells you what you should have learned from the show.
I like the more multi-layered personalities of Grissom and Horatio better than this guy, Sinise, what's his name?
But it is interesting, so I'll likely keep watching. Especially as it's on Mondays before Criminal Intent and Crossing Jordan. (We had crying Nigel yesterday on Crossing Jordan. Awwwww)

Blah. Back to work.

things that bug me

List 3 things that bug you - things that others may find trivial. Then tag 6 of your friends. Only list 3 things because you may/can be tagged again.

- to find that somebody left the light on in the hallway in our building all night

- one of the ladies coming in five times a day to copy something, and telling us every single time she'll just copy something

- people stating the obvious. Don't talk about the weather with me.

As melisande88, I'll tag you all.